Just trolling over Barn Owl Hill in ever decreasing light and weird misty evening gloaming, and saying, having scanned the usual haunts at 5.30pm, "Nah......maybe during a nice late light evening in April-May-June, we could sit out at 9ish and see a busy parent out hunting, but for now...... OH MY GOD!! There she be!" (or he... we cannot claim to be expert at sexing a dim lit flying barny- even Collins Complete Guide to British Birds doesn't go near to explaining the differences)
Anyway great viewing lasting a good 15 minutes as ...IT flew over the fields on both sides and into and out of conifer woodland and landed on a post in a copse of broadleaf leafless youthful trees. We managed to take some pretty close quarter shots of it -you get close the light's bad; the light's good you don't get close!! La di da!!
Anyway a few shots that make us smile happily. Did we say we lurve barn owls...
Who couldn't?
I am going to vote "SHE" due to the buff colour of the throat, the dark barring of the primary feathers and the dark colours across the wing coverts - see http://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/infopage.html?Id=55
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